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Instructors now have an easy way to collect students’ online quizzes with the Norton Gradebook without flooding their inboxes with e-mails.

Students can track their online quiz scores by setting up their own Student Gradebook.

Quizzes

• Period Introduction Quiz

Reading Comprehension Quizzes

• Washington Irving, “Rip Van Winkle”
• Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature
• Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown”
• Edgar Allan Poe, “The Fall of the House of Usher”
• Harriet Jacobs, from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
• Henry David Thoreau, Walden
• Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
• Walt Whitman, Song of Myself
• Herman Melville, Bartleby, the Scrivener
• William Apess , “An Indian’s Looking-Glass for the White Man”
• Emily Dickinson , Poems
• Margaret Fuller , “The Great Lawsuit”
• Harriet Beecher Stowe, From Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Short Answer Quizzes

• Washington Irving, “Rip Van Winkle”
• Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature
• Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Young Goodman Brown”
• Edgar Allan Poe, “The Fall of the House of Usher”
• Harriet Jacobs, from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
• Henry David Thoreau, Walden
• Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
• Walt Whitman, Song of Myself
• Herman Melville, Bartleby, the Scrivener